Horace Mann
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 8th district
In office April 3, 1848 – March 3, 1853
Preceded by	John Quincy Adams
Succeeded by	Tappan Wentworth
Personal details
Born	(1796-05-04)May 4, 1796 Franklin, Massachusetts
Died	August 2, 1859(1859-08-02) (aged 63) Yellow Springs, Ohio
Resting place	North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island
Political party	Whig Free Soil
Spouse(s)	Charlotte Messer Mann (d. 1832) Mary Peabody Mann
Relations	Thomas Mann (father) Rebecca Stanley Mann (mother) Stephen Mann (Brother) Louise Mann (Sister)
Children	Horace Mann Jr. George Combe Mann Benjamin Pickman Mann
Alma mater	Brown University Litchfield Law School
Occupation	Lawyer Educator College president
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Horace Mann (1796-1859) was an educator and politician who helped set up the first public schools in the United States. He did this in the state of Massachusetts. Mann personally visited every school in the state to inspect it. He later became the first president of Antioch College in Ohio. “Our means of education,” he stated, “are the grand machinery by which the ‘raw material’ of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers.”

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